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TIL the same cinematographer that worked on iconic films Metropolis (1927) and Dracula (1931) also worked on I Love Lucy (1951). Karl Freund was born in Austria-Hungary in 1890 and pioneered the Unchained Camera Technique in Germany before coming to the US in 1929. He died in 1969.

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